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THE STEEPLE. 



The popular idea of Christianity is that it is 
wholly distinct from the religious systems of 
the pagan world, which preceded or were its 
contemporaries. That its rites, dogmas, and 
observances were instituted by its founders, 
and without a special divine inspiration it could 
not have sprung into existence. Yet the re- 
searches of modern criticism incontrovert- 
ibly prove that so far is this from the truth, 
that it is the direct reverse. There is not a 
fast or festival, procession or sacrament, social 
custom or religious symbol, that did not come 
bodily from the previous paganism. (Ancient 
Symbol Worship, p. 96.) 



THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 



Of all the great religions, Christianity is 
most purely phallic, as is distinctly shown by 
comparing its doctrines and symbols with more 
ancient faiths. By phallic is meant the wor- 
ship of the generative principle, which is proba- 
bly the most ancient of all religions, and 
which by its universal acceptance by primi- 
tive man has given its precepts and symbols 
to all others, even those of the most civilized 
peoples. 

Procreation, the most mysterious phenom- 
enon of nature, early attracted attention, and 
by analogy primitive man sought to solve the 
problem of creation. As offspring came from 
the union of male and female, so all things 
sprang from the union of male and female gods, 

types of the active and passive in nature. 
Hence the reverence for these principles or 
gods, and for the sexual parts (the Phallus, 
male, and the Yoni, female) as their types. 
These were carved or drawn true to nature 
and became symbols of the male and female 
principles, and their union the expression of 
creative energy. The devout worshipper bowed 
before their sculptured representations. The 
uncultured instincts of primitive man saw 
nothing impure in the act of generation, but 



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considered it as one of the divine processes 
of creation, as sowing of the seed, and the com- 
mand to increase and multiply became a sacred 
ordinance, and the act itself a sacrament to the 
Creator. 

As Mrs. Child well remarks (Prog. R Ideas, 
vol. i, p. 15): " Were they impure thus to regard 
it ? Or, are we impure that we do not so regard 
it ? . . . . Let us not smile at their 
mode of tracing the Infinite and Incomprehen- 
sible Cause through all the mysteries of nature, 
lest by so doing we cast the shadow of our own 
grossness on their patriarchal simplicity." The 
ideas of indecency are the result of an advanced 
civilization when the rites imposed by the 
simplicity of the childhood of the race, became 
perverted by licentiousness. 

In the dim and undefined pre-historic age, 
out of which the distinct forms of Phoenician, 
Assyrian and Egyptian civilizations emerge, 
phallic worship appears to have been universal. 
Critcism confirms Bryant's statement that II or 
El was at the head of the Babylonian Pantheon, 
and that the Hebrew Elohim, Phoenician Illus, 
Cronus and primitive Saturn were names of 
the same god, represented by a pillar carved 
in the form of a phallus. The name Baal 



6 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 

Shalisha (Kings iv, 42) gives an equivalent 
idea, translated " my lord of Trinty," or, " the 
triple male genitals" Set or Seth, equivalent 
to Saturn, means "the erect," and Kivan said 
by Amos to have been worshipped by the He- 
brews, signifies, 'god of the pillar," and Baal 
Tamar means "god of the phallus." (Symbol 
Worship, p. 60) 

The supreme god of the Assyrians was Bel, 
u the Proereator." The union with his wife, 
the goddess Mylitta was the origin of all cre- 
ated things Virgil expresses the Greek and Ro- 
man idea when he makes the conjugal act be- 
tween Jupiter and Juno the cause of the pro- 
ductions of the earth. As at present in India, 
the phallus, as an emblem of the Creator, is 
found in all the temples, and is carried in reli- 
gious processions, the Romans, when they held 
the festival in honor of Venus, a procession of 
women carried the phallus and presented it to 
the goddess. 

As the [male principle, under whatever spe- 
cial or local name, was symbolized by an up- 
right pillar, more or less carved to represent the 
phallus, so the female principle was represented 
by a conical one as symbolical of the " mother 
goddess." This was said to express the form of 



THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 7 

the swelling abdomen. At the temple of Am- 
nion, in Libya, this symbol was borne in a boat 
or ark. At Delphi, the navel-stone of white 
marble was kept in a sacred sanctuary (Strabo 
ix, 420) The goddess Astarte was represented 
at Carthage in like manner, as well as on Cy- 
prian coins. The famous Caaba, of Mecca, is a 
rounded stone having like significance. 

As Christianity is founded on this ancient 
faith, it is interesting to learn the ideas of these 
primitive peoples. It was natural for them to 
believe that the testes each had special func- 
tions, one giving male the other female off- 
spring, an idea science has lately unsuccessfully 
endeavored to demonstrate. According to the 
analysis of Rawlinson, this "conception gave 
origin to the Trinity." The Assyrian triad of 
Ashur, Anu, Hea, (the membrane virile with its 
twin testes) were united with the goddess Bellis 
forming the perfect creator. Ashur means the 
" upright," while the left testes was Anu, and 
the right, Hea,— the three forming the sacred 
Trinity, the three in olie, the great "I Am." 
The pictured or sculptured representation of 
this organ, the phallus, was received as the em- 
blem of life, of the creative energy, ages before 
the Christian era. The devout follower of Isis 



8 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 

suspended the phallus from her necklace, as the 
Christian suspends the cross to-day. When the 
pyramids were fresh from the hands of their 
architects and the temples of the Nile were in 
their pristine glory, around the heads of the 
* 'Queen of Heaven," and the "Virgin Mother" 
and the infant Horsu the aureole was painted 
expressive of their creative functions. 

The phallus, by the necessities of rapid de- 
lineation, or perhaps of taste, which dictated 
the symbol instead of the exact representation, 
became contracted to a simple perpendicular 
mark, with a horizontal one across its top, and 
in later times was used as the letter Tau of the 
Phoenitic alphabet. This sign (X) was received 
as a symbol of the male Creator at least 3,000 
years ago, and in India is still retained. 

The female principle, represented at first true 
to nature, became symbolized by a cypher, 
which united with sun-worship gave origin to 
the aureole, and to express also the three-fold re- 
ceptivity of the male triad, was expressed by a 
triangle which in later ages became the letter 
Delta. 

Again, the cypher was placed above the cross 
vT /symbolizing the perfect and complete god- 
head, the " three in one," the union of the 



THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 9 

male and the female, whereby all created 
things were evolved. This is its most common 
form, although it is met with, the parts drawn 
true to the organs they symbolize. The sanc- 
tuaries of Indian temples still furnish the cross 
formed of intersecting phalli, to the horror of 
Christian missionaries worshiping in blissful ig- 
norance the same emblem of creative power. 

It was the assembled Bishops at Nicea, in 
the third century, who determined that the cross 
should be the emblem of the Christian faith. 
In their hands it was given new meaning. 
While it taught that in sin all men die, on the 
other hand it signified that all through Christ 
received life. 

Thus Christianity stole the cross, the central 
symbol of its worship, from the pagan world ! 
The devout maiden may blush to hear that the 
diamond cross she wears on her breast is only a 
disguised phallus, and indicates almost the same 
ideas of the more truthful symbol worn by 
Egyptian ladies four thousand years ago. If the 
cross was thus boldly usurped, other objects of 
worship were alike transferred. The " Virgin 
Mother" is the goddess Isis, as her immaculate 
infant is the child Horus. The very name Ma- 
donna is an exact translation of the Sanskrit 



10 THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 

Isi. The lotus has become the lily, the charm- 
ing sistrum has been replaced by the hideous 
clanging bell, the high cap and hooked staff of 
the Egyptian God has become the Bishop's 
miter and crosier, the celibate monks and nuns 
(the latter a purely Egyptian word) dedicated 
to the phallic worship, have been transferred to 
the "virgin and Son," the erect oval, type of 
the female principle, or the yoni, became the 
aureole, or rather the aureole itself was trans- 
ferred with head of Isis, mother of Horus, now 
renamed the mother of Christ. (See Gnostics 
and their Remains, King; p. 71). Even the sa- 
cred vessels of the pagan mysteries became those 
of the holy communion. The emblem of the 
fish held sacred by Buddhists, Egyptians, Bab- 
ylonians, and Assyrians, and prescribed as diet 
on certain days and ceremonies, because such 
diet was supposed to be favorable to reproduction, 
was not overlooked. And as the pagan ate fish 
on Friday, a day consecrated to Venus, for rea- 
sons quite apparent to one receiving the phallic 
religion, Christianity accepted the day and the 
diet. The legend of the Apostles being fisher- 
men, and of the loaves aDd fishes, has an un- 
doubted phallic significance. 

When the village steeple, of a beautiful sum- 
mer evening, is seen arising above the green 
shade, indicative of the Christian worship, we 
pronounce it an inspiring object and would not 
have it removed from the landscape. Yet our 
thoughts revert to its origin, and if we ask his- 
tory why churches have steeples and what they 



THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 11 

signify, the answer returned is not conducive to 
our reverence. 

The column, the tower, the minaret, the obe- 
lisk, all have one significance. The require- 
ments of architecture covers the original mean- 
ing. The aspiring steeple is a type of the phal- 
lus, and connected with the " House of God" 
has a purely phallic meaning — "the Creator," 
the "Great I Am." If the steeple is crowned 
with a dome, it refers to the Yoni, the navel- 
stone type of the Mother Goddes, of Ammon, 
of Delphi, of the shrines of Isis. When the 
dome, as often happens, is surmounted by the 
cross, there is completed the symbol of the phal- 
lic religion. 

The "Communion," under the shadow of the 
phallic steeple, is a mutilated copy of the pagan 
rites, wherein communion with the gods meant 
sexual intercourse with women maintained in 
the temple for that object, as is proven by the 
fact that any mutilation unfitted the individual 
for the " Congregation of the Lord" (See Deut. 
xxiii, 1), and that thirty- two thousand Mid- 
ianitish virgins were preserved for this pur- 
pose. The Hebrew words for "sanctuary," "con- 
secrated," and "Sodomite," are essentially the 
same, indicating amatory passions. (See the 
Masculine Cross. ) The communion wafer should 
retain its original form of the phallus and yoni, 
as it still does in some places in France on Easter 
day. (See Remains of the worship of Priapus). 

Christianity is a translation of paganism. It 
added no new idea, belief, fast, or ceremony. 



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Was not Jesus crucified ? The tale is doubt- 
ful. Christna, Prometheus, Buddha and other 
Deities were incarnated ages before his time. 
Singular to note, the cross is never depicted as 
an instrument of torture, and the story of Christ- 
na is identically that of Christ, except in 
names and dates. Paul hesitated not to "lie 
for the Lord's sake," and taught that cursed 
doerine to his followers. Who can unravel 
the mystery ? Is it worth unraveling ? Except 
as a page in the history of belief it is worth- 
less. 

Christianity, founded on phallic conceptions, is, 
true to its origin, a religion of feeling, of emo- 
tion. Its basis is the passions. To them it makes 
its strongest appeal and without them it is no- 
thing. Its watch cry " God is love" has a per- 
tinency. Is it strange, then, that in seasons of 
" Revival," under the phallic cross and steeple, 
that the emotions overmaster the intellect, and 
that the orgies of Babylon are repeated ? Is it 
to be thought strange that the priests to this 
religion, although held in check as they are by 
the civilization of our times, are, in proportion 
to their number, the most licentious class ? or 
that the strength of the churches is in the fe- 
male members, held under the magnetic control 
of " Ministers of the Cross ?" 

It is not with a scoffing spirit I have studied 
this interesting subject, which exhibits more, 
perhaps, than any other the vital affiliations of 
religious systems however diverse, and reveals 
the foundation of them all. Because Christian- 



THE CROSS AND THE STEEPLE. 13 

ity is held to be the only true system, of divine 
origin, and infallible, it becomes necessary to 
show its human origin and relations to the so- 
called pagan systems. Superstition lurks in this 
stronghold, ready to clutch the throat of civiliza- 
tion; and to dislodge this foe of mankind and 
throw the light of truth through its dark dens 
where dogmas are made plethoric by faith, is a 
necessity of the time. The church, the steeple, 
the cross, nourish the superstition on which they 
are founded. 

This superstition is early impressed on the 
plastic minds of children, preparing them for 
the reception of the seeds sown by wily priests 
and laymen from the pulpit and in the Sun- 
day school. It is the duty of Liberalists to free 
their children from the bondage of creeds and 
false-beliefs, and how can they better accom- 
plish this than by presenting them historic facts 
on which popular religion rests ? 

Do you fear anarchy ? There may be for a 
time confusion of ideas. The Copernican system 
of astronomy overthrew that of the entire an- 
cient world, and broke in pieces the "crystal- 
line spheres" of the great Ptolemy, yet astron- 
omy did not die. Without the errors which pre- 
ceded him, Copernicus would never have arrived 
at the truth. They prepared the way. 

So of religious systems, the ideas and dog- 
mas however false, have been stepping-stones 
to new and broader views — approximating nearer 
and nearer to the truth. The Triune God may 
be proven only a myth arising out of a false 



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and childish physiological notion ; Hell may 
be shown to have no existence ; the sufferings 
of God on the Cross be discarded, and the 
book in which the relations of God to man are 
said to be contained be referred to human ori- 
gin, — and when all is done the world be the bet- 
ter. 

The past needed sects and the battle of con- 
flicting creeds ; the present has no use for them. 
They are dead bodies, once pregnant with vital 
ity, now festering in decay. Something else is 
required. It is positive knowledge, scientific 
accuracy of thought and demonstration. Blind 
belief finds its last hold with the ignorant. 

There will be conflict and chauge assuredly. 
Sixty thousand miuisters in the United States 
will be relieved of the arduous task of " saving 
souls" never lost, and allowed to follow more 
profitable pursuits. The $200,000,000, the yearly 
cost of maintaining the churches in this coun- 
try, can be turned to better use. The hosts who 
go through a vale of tears in search of a "foun- 
tain filled with blood," will be emancipated, 
and dare to think, and even seek rational en- 
joyment in this life. 

The conflict of the ages has been the conflict 
between the received religion and the tendency 
of civilization. The Saviors of the world, one 
and all, have suffered martyrdom at the bloody 
hands of religion. 

Is there any evidence that the present re- 
ceived religion of Christianity is absolute truth, 
and all the world will ever require? On. the 



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contrary, does it not exhibit marks of decay ? 
Is it not, even now, a sapless trunk, on whose 
leafless, moss-grown branches, theological owls 
echo the mournful monody of salvation to man 
never lost? Is it not even now directly in the 
path of advancement and intellectual activity? 
The great lights of the world are aloof from the 
churches. Knowledge has been and is the bane 
of religion. Religion has ostracized Gallileo, 
Bruno, Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Mill, Paine, 
Jefferson, Shakepeare, Dickens, leaders of a 
countless host in the front of mental and moral 
achievement. 

Is it said that if the religion of the Past has 
been largely composed of {Superstition, that of 
the Present is free from this repulsive element ? 
Ah, what assurance have we that a century hence 
will not regard the creeds and formula? of the 
churches, as we regard the childishness of the 
Puritans, or the corruption of Eomanism ? Are 
we not certain that beliefs now cherished as car- 
dinal will then be considered of little worth, or 
intrinsically harmful ? 

We are fallible, and have not arrived at the 
infallible, in the realm of the intellect or of the 
morals. 

If it be known that mankind move onward 
with the absolute certainty of planetary bodies 
around their central orbs ; that there is no re- 
trogression, and as yesterday's thoughts are re- 
placed by to-day's, as to-day's will yield to to- 
morrow's, it is our duty not to stand in the way 
of this tidal flow in the sea of humanity. 



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